Rick Stassi Poetry

personal pathways in Poetry

Sanctification

  • Love Completed

    And indeed all was vanity and grasping for the wind. There was no profit under the sun. Ecclesiastes 2:11 (NKJV) and indeed toils for naught retrospect sought we seek certain pleasure in life by world taught and when we peer upon life’s year grains of sand through hand falls with sadness and a tear but Read more

  • The Binding Fire

    “And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.” Colossians 3:14 (KJV) The fifth season is the return of summer from where I began a year ago. In life. I was born in the summer when leaves were full, green, unfurled to a beautiful suppleness. The sweetness of the spring Read more

  • Staggering elation surging through my heart overwhelms. Can this joy be sustained? I am touched with a happiness; a warmness from other hearts felt from many directions. Felt from far away and also close by. Yes! How another’s love can affect me so much. I may give seemingly without effort; but, receiving warms me as Read more

  • I am Adam

    “But above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfection.” Col 3:14 (NKJV) I am Adam. Well, not exactly… But inside I contain him His character plain to see. I have free will and I chose to fall, Avoid my Creator, heed Satan’s call. And in this will, freedom-less, I’ve blatant Read more

  • Originally posted on Rick Stassi Poetry: When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; 1 Corinthians 13:11 In the Fall of my life, leaves peeled away from my branches and fell to the ground. In my understanding, I was like a tree. Once… Read more